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My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.

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Charles Kuralt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 10
Died: 1997
Died: July 4
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New York City
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Charles Bishop Kuralt
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I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
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That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
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A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
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Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.
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The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
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What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
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I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
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It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
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